"If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?"
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"The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka."
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"He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!"
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"I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing."
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"Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have."
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"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."
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"In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do."
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"No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it."
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"I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream."
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"Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie."
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"Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat."
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"'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book."
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"I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing."
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"Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?"
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"I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime."
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"People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers."
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"One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there."
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"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."
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"In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value."
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